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Porcelain plates bearing Russian double-headed eagles from the Kremlin service. Gift of Ekaterina Pavlovna Borodina
Porcelain plates bearing Russian double-headed eagles from the Kremlin service. Gift of Ekaterina Pavlovna Borodina
January 21, 2025
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Porcelain plates bearing Russian double-headed eagles from the Kremlin service. Gift of Ekaterina Pavlovna Borodina

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The exhibition of unique porcelain in the St. George Hall of the Winter Palace at the State Hermitage will run until January 31, 2025

"Our traditional last exhibition of the year is, as always, dedicated to a gift. Ekaterina Pavlovna Borodina is donating plates from the famous Kremlin service to us, one of the most outstanding works of the 'Russian style.' We did not have this service in our collection and today we gratefully receive it," said Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage.

The Hermitage received as a gift four plates bearing Russian double-headed eagles from the Kremlin service, which was produced at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Saint Petersburg in 1837–1838, during the reign of Emperor Nicholas I, and was intended for the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. The service was designed by Fyodor Grigorievich Solntsev, a Russian artist, architect and archaeologist. During the Soviet years the set was sold off; the items donated to the museum were acquired by the collector at foreign auctions in the 2000s and thus returned to Russia, together with other examples of the magnificent service. More information on the history and individual items of Borodina's collection can be found in a special publication.

A monograph was published for the project, "Porcelain of the Russian Emperors of the 18th–early 20th Century. From the Collection of Ekaterina Borodina. Selected", written by Irina Bagdasarova, the exhibition curator, senior research fellow and keeper of the imperial porcelain collection in the Department of the History of Russian Culture.

Ekaterina Borodina: "I have been fortunate that, by collecting Russian porcelain, I learned about the history of Russia through it. This book features the best items from my collection. And readers will have the opportunity to learn about the era, the history, and the beautiful examples of Russian porcelain. For me, having grown up in Yakutia on books from the Hermitage, it is a great pride and honor to be here and to make this gift to the great museum.",

The exhibition can be visited until January 31, 2025 with a ticket to the Main Museum Complex. (https://tickets.hermitagemuseum.org/?id=3&sid=1)

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Ekaterina Borodina and Irina Bagdasarova

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Ekaterina Borodina and Irina Bagdasarova

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